Apologies if lots of the images on this and associated websites have stopped working, but photobucket seems to have broken again. I will start putting future images on imageshack, as it seems to be more stable.

Ah, it's back.In answer to your question, because it's a pain in the arse to manage photos like that. I do it for photos which aren't going to change for ages, but for selling swords and suchlike (and for uploading from places I don't have ftp access) photobucket or imageshack are way easier.